Tag: Bill Drummond
Centre Of The Creative Universe: Liverpool And The Avant-Garde
Published by Liverpool University Press in 2007, the release of Centre Of The Creative Universe coincided with the exhibition of the same name at Tate Liverpool. The book contains various photographs, event posters and newspaper clippings documenting the post-WW2 art history of the UK’s fifth-largest city. Apart from the imagery…
The Beechwood Airship Interviews
The Beechwood Airship Interviews follows author Dan Richards during his undertaking of building an airship in his art school bar and the manifold artists and craftsmen he meets on his journey. Alongside interviewees like the Manic Street Preachers and Dame Judi Dench he also dedicates one chapter to Bill Drummond…
The Monkees, Head, and the 60s
The Monkees, Head, and the 60s by Peter Mills features the 12-page chapter “Here We Come”, a collection of four questions posed to Bill about his memories of The Monkees TV show, the disparity between authenticity and manufacture in pop music, their influence on his early days as a musician,…
The Kalevala Singles
Kalevala Records was a fictional Finnish label conceived by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning. Named after the Finnish national epic the label was established to release a series of 7″ singles and albums by equally fictional bands and artists inspired by their novel Bad Wisdom.
Kiss The Lips Of Life
Brilliant started life in 1982 as a reaction of bass player Martin “Youth” Glover’s growing dissatisfaction with his current band Killing Joke and its band members. Following an angry musical one-person jab at his former band Glover went on to recruit a number of musicians and vocalists to found his…
White Saviour Complex
White Saviour Complex is a play written by Bill Drummond under the pseudoynm of his alter ego Tenzing Scott Brown. Its release ties in with the screening of Best Before Death by Paul Duane. The book is divided into two versions of the same play, each again featuring three acts…
Silent Protest (2002)
Silent Protest was a set of cards Bill Drummond released in late 2002 as a reaction to the invasion of Afghanistan. Originally meant as a single person’s full-year protest Bill soon realised the difficulties of going a whole year without uttering a single word. Instead he created the set of…
The JAMs Don’t Do Sidekicks
If you have been following our Twitter page – which you definitely should because we are pretty awesome – you will certainly have heard about How To Burn A Million Quid, a 6-part radio podcast which was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 earlier this month. Over the course of three…
Score 378: 7 Jours Avec Bill Drummond
Score 378 is a French book published in 2015 which is divided into two major parts. During the first 100 pages the book follows Bill Drummond and his performance 7 Decades, 7 Days, 7 Albums which took place in February 2011: having agreed to be the editor of the Offline…
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